Assemblyman Anthony Imperiale, the Essex County independent who is leading the opposition to construction of the controversial Kawaida Towers housing project discusses the project on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 1972 in Newark. (AP Photo)

Volume 3, Number 3 of Unity and Struggle, the national newspaper of the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP), published in March 1974. Unity and Struggle was one of several media outlets developed by Amiri Baraka to promote Black cultural nationalism in Newark and the nation. — Credit: NYU Tamiment Library

Volume 3, Number 6 of Unity and Struggle, the national newspaper of the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP), published in June 1974. Unity and Struggle was one of several media outlets developed by Amiri Baraka to promote Black cultural nationalism in Newark and the nation. — Credit: NYU Tamiment Library

Volume 3, Number 13 of Unity and Struggle, the national newspaper of the Congress of Afrikan People (CAP), published in December 1974. Unity and Struggle was one of several media outlets developed by Amiri Baraka to promote Black cultural nationalism in Newark and the nation. — Credit: NYU Tamiment Library

Official platform of the Black and Puerto Rican Convention, ratified on November 15, 1969, the second day of the Convention. The platform, developed through the Convention’s workshops, put forth a progressive political agenda for Newark’s 1970 Mayoral and City Council elections that all candidates nominated at the Convention agreed to be bound by.